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Introduction: On the fickleness of friendship Introduction : de l'inconstance en amitié
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.In this Introduction to the special section, I provide a brief overview of the anthropology of friendship, particularly from the 1960s to the present, before focusing on the four articles that form the main body of the section. I argue that anthropologists who do not regard themselves as specialists in friendship will still find much to gain from ...
Simon Coleman
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“Lovelies on Wheels”: The Politics of Miss Wheelchair America, 1972–1977
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines the Miss Wheelchair America pageant in the 1970s as a cultural and political space that produced a specific message about the intersections of womanhood, disability, and citizenship. The pageant elevated contestants who performed normative femininity, beauty, heterosexuality, and whiteness, while narratively framing ...
Moira Armstrong
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The Political Ecology of the ‘New’ Feminism in Late‐1990s Britain
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The 1990s were a vexed time for feminists in Britain. Cultural commentators declared that feminism's key battles had been won, and that given women's ascendency across various political and cultural barometers of success, the country was entering a newly ‘postfeminist’ era.
Sarah Crook
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Media and Body Image: Analyzing Self-Objectification Theory Across Different Ages of Women
SAGE OpenThis research paper examines the impact of media exposure and chronological age on women’s feelings of objectification and self-worth in Lahore City, Pakistan, drawing upon feminist Objectification Theory.
Umair Ahmed +2 more
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Behavioral SciencesIn the digital age, social media has not only transformed the way individuals interact but has also become a significant platform for self-presentation, especially among young people.
Jinrui Tian, Boxuan Li, Ronghua Zhang
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Gender and Obstetric Violence in Britain, ca. 1750–1830
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Obstetric violence is a form of gendered violence experienced by pregnant and birthing people, particularly women, during medical care provided in the hospital, clinic or home. Recent scholarship has explored how obstetric violence and obstetric racism manifested historically, from post‐war Canada to colonial and postcolonial Mexico.
Paige Donaghy
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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In this article, we ‘think with care’ about gender in Scotland in the early twentieth century, undertaking an ethnographic approach to the archive of OneKind, formerly the Scottish Society for the Prevention of Vivisection (SSPV), which has only recently been catalogued.
Elizabeth Vander Meer, Alette Willis
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Imagination Will Not Be Automized: On AI Image Generators and Epistemic Oppression
Constellations, EarlyView.
Sarah Abel
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The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article develops a cultural and relational model of political polarisation that integrates insights from currently disconnected streams of scholarship to conceive polarisation as a discursive and performative struggle over sacred meanings.
Werner Binder +3 more
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Objectification, Self-Objectification, and Identification with the Aggressor
MiKANThis article aims to address a gap regarding the relationship between two phenomena—objectification and identification with the aggressor—which has been overlooked in the critical discourse. While these phenomena have been studied separately, their connection has not been explored. The article proposes to fill this gap by examining works of literature.
Chen Edelsburg, Anat Talmon
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